Prayer to the Great Mystery: The Uncollected Writings and Photography of Edward S. Curtis

by Edward S. Curtis

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Prayer to the Great Mystery is a historic publishing event, a remarkable coup that presents 93 newly discovered photographs--along with 150 others--taken by Edward S. Curtis. Deeply human and symphathetic, these images embody Curtis's attempt to preserve the character is Native American Cultural life before its erosion by the nineteenth-century flood of American expansion. Accompanying the photographs is a poignant series of myths, abridged from Curtis's...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0312135912

ISBN13:9780312135911

Release Date:January 1995

Publisher:St. Martin's Press

Length:245 Pages

Weight:2.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 7.8" x 9.6"

Related Subjects

Americas Arts, Music & Photography History Native American Native American Studies Photography Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Specific Demographics

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